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Architecture Students Create Parti Wall Installation over 72-Hour Period

Over the course of the 72 hours, the architectural sensibilities of the nine mentor-led teams emerged, demonstrating the versatility that the nine-square problem previously offered as an abstract spatial problem, a project on tectonics and an indexing of form, and, with this project, as an infrastructure for an event.
— news.syr.edu

Ha, Thayer I was going to comment asking other people to explain the nine-square projects they did while they were in school!

The one I did was with Dan Hoffman while he was a visiting professor at U of Michigan. We built the nine square platform, 36" grid, then each square in plan was given a the material quality of either earth, air, fire, or water, along with a perceptual qualifier of hot/cold, light/dark, or absorptive/reflective. Then the wall had to mediate between those two conditions. I built a wall between dark earth and hot air, so of course I did adobe. But it was adobe laid up like plaster on wood and twine wattle and daub, with the air side being the squished-through forms of the clay. Very indexical sign, very haptic.